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Note 1: December 1959 or January 1960. Steve Lacy, sax; guitar, bass, drum, piano. Bill? Zoot Sims? CDI 1. Midsong. Great sax, with bass drum piano. "What'd you stop for?" "You changed the territory." "I Got Rhythm" "Bill" 2. Good tune and talk "Steve Lacy" and quiet talk. 3. Song with "You don't' take a break for a couple of minutes" "C'mon, take a break at least, get myself together 'cause I still wanna play." 4. Saxophone exercises and talk "beautiful singer...I don't know she sounded pretty though." "make your own patterns by just tuning the picture out." "...got another tune to do." song fades on tape as it begins. CDII 1. song obscured by tape condition 2. midtrack song Piano, bass, drum sax, guitar. then "Oh yes, I'm gonna go home again." " Avalon, you know Avalon? You know that?" "Anybody get some coffee?" 3,4,5, more songs and talk. Sound of cork popping.

Note 1: Trumpet, piano, bass, drums, saxes. CDI 1. Sped up talk into midsong. Talking about next song. Humming melody of next tune. 2. Tune, good playing. Same tune talk about: 3. Drum leads into another good tune with trumpet solo. "Gerry" or "Jerry" addressed. "It could happen to you" 4. Group plays tune together, with several horns. Tape ends before song. CDII 1. More playing with lots of background voices. Good music and piano. "Autumn Leaves" 2. Gentler tune, ends with applause 3. Many instruments warm up into tune. Trails off before song gets going.

Note 1: Warren Fitzgerald, Manny Duran, trumpet; Henry Grimes, bass; Gary Hawkins, drums; Freddy Greenwell, sax.

Note 1: Summer 1959. Joey Massters and Buddy Blacklock on piano. Gary Hawkins on drums. CDI. 1. Lots of dialogue. Names mentioned (there): Joe, Chuck, Gary, Ed.Names mentioned, (not there): Manny?, Sonny?, Dave Young, Buddy Berlin (Albequerque), Gene Galloway (gig), Sal Salvador (gig) . W. Eugene Smith voice and evidence of changing sound levels on recorder. End of session talk about next session, gigs past present and future. 2. song with bass drums piano. 3. Bass, piano, and drums join 4. Monk tune? 5. Talk: "fatigued" "Pell Mell, why, because they're mild" "get the tape going" "What's the next one, Henry?" "There you go, get your picture took" 6. Song 7. Piano: "squeaky pedal" Pianist working through tune and talking. "Old Joe from where?" "One little twister there straightened me out" "just a pictoral one" (Smith) "Can we have a little bit of that, Gene?" CDII 1. Dave McKenna at piano. Classical and spare with barrelhouse blue flourish. Joined by second pianist and other voice "Shit, hey don't lose that." 2. More barrelhouse piano in response to comment 2 Pianos playing and discussing. "tape's rolling" "beer?" W. Eugene Smith talking during "St. James Infirmary" and "China Boy" 3. Piano plays until tape end.

Note 1: August 1961. Lin Halliday, sax; Warren Fitzgerald, trumpet; Manny Duran, trumpet; others. CDI 1. Midsong with several solos. Long song. "Let's play some tunes, like, uh, more conducive to relaxing." "get together and just swing" Working out tune. 2. Snapping out rhythm into tune. Trombone in mix. "If __ wants to come play..." CDII (W. Eugene Smith adjusting recording volume for conversation) 1. "Straight street" "Don't remind Halliday of that one, man." "Anybody got a rag, look what you did man." "Kids, now" (Jimmy spilled something on the piano) "Fred" "Warren" 2. "Manny" "Warren" More music talk and talk about how the piano keys are sticky because Jimmy spilled something on them. Rag, Hall or Paul, Lin. " No, I just wanted to change something on the scores real quick." More talking until 3. Tune.

Note 1: May 1963. Don Ellis group rehearsal. W. Eugene Smith adjusting volume on recorder. Names of participants include: Don, John, Barre Phillips?, Martin Eagle, Frank, Dave, Mike, Female singer. 1. Long discussion of music, jazz, improvisation. Rehearsal and composition. Phone rings for Jimmy in the other room. Stair step noises. 2. Further discussion. "like Monk" Rehearsing parts and with full band. Shows discussed. Multiple contributors to compositions. 4. Song followed by Don Ellis and others talking's about specific tunes.

Note 1: May 1963. Don Ellis group rehearsal. (For Speakeasy (club) show across from Village Gate) W. Eugene Smith adjusting volume on final track. Names mentioned include Don, Doug, Jimmy, Frank, Joe, Ray, Paul, Dave, Fred, Tom, Female voice. 1. Counting and talking under song, midsong. Discussion and 2 . Repetition of song. 3. More rehearsal followed by discussion. 4. Same with "Jimmy, do you think we could get in around 8 o'clock to get his drums, or will it be closed up?" Jimmy: "If you take it now it'd be better because I still have to make tonight." 5. Use of piano for discussion purposes. (Pregnancy talk from previous track continues: Yoga, Lamaz, Midwife) People leaving the rehearsal evident "Just got back from Paris" Don and others talking about music and continuing with piano as tape runs out.